The innovative minds of a group of students who assembled a power-packed chopper bike using discarded spare parts and engines of different makes of motorcycles have won the first prize at the national-level Dream Bike Design Contest-2K15 hosted by the BLDE’s Vachana Pitamaha Dr. P.G. Halakatti college of Engineering and Technology at Vijayapura.
The winning group of 10 students pursuing their automobile engineering course at PDA college of Engineering in Kalaburagi also bagged a cash prize of Rs. 1 lakh for their innovation.
The students, who have named their chopper bike ‘Predator-150’ said the total expenditure incurred for assembling this power-packed single seater was less than Rs. 50,000.
Sandeep Ture and Harish Kalshetty, who initially devised the idea of assembling a bike from used parts of other motorcycles, told The Hindu here on Friday that the entire assembling of the vehicle was done in just 29 days in their department by the students themselves under the guidance of their teachers S.R. Hotti and Head of the Department Abhimanyu Posangiri.
They said they chose a 150 CC engine used in the Suzuki PRO motorbike which was discarded in a mechanic shop for years, to power their Predator 150. “We made the required changes in the engine to introduce a self-starter along with kickstart… we also used the chassis of the same discarded Suzuki PRO bike and made the required changes to convert it into a single-seater to give a tougher and mean look to the vehicle,” they said.
Mr. Kalshetty said they used the front suspension of the Yamaha F2 by altering the T section of the suspension and installed in the chassis of the Suzuki PRO.
For the rear suspension they chose the suspension used in a Discover 135 motorcycle and took the Swing Arm of an abandoned Pulsar 220 motorbike for their vehicle.
“The driving gear of Apache RTR and RX 100 Yamaha vehicles were used in Predator 150 to increase efficiency and an HP performance Air fleter for better pick up and fuel efficiency,” he said.
The sleek vehicle with the specification of four speed manual with a top speed of 120 km per hour had a fuel efficiency of 55 km and the students had introduced a new system of combi brakes for this motorcycle.
Other students who were part of the team were Raut Jagjeet, Shendre Nishant, Sumesh Police Patil, Rajendra Melkundi, Ankit Somayaji, Sangmnath Math, Vadeendra A. Das and Basavaraj.
Principal of the College S.S. Hebbal congratulated the efforts of the students and bringing laurels to the institution.
